Now available on the Internet:
The
948-page
summary of the FBI's MIBURN ("Mississippi Burning")
investigation.
To go to the FBI documents, click here: MIBURN
DOCUMENTS
Documents
Prosecutive
Summary
of the Investigation of the Abduction and Murder of James Earl
Chaney,
Andrew Goodman, and Michael Henry Schwerner on June 21, 1964
(Federal
Bureau
of Investigation)
United States of
America
v. Cecil Ray Price et al., Criminal Action No. 5291,
heard in
Federal
District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in
Meridian,
October
11-21, 1967 (trial transcript)
Books
Huie, Willaim
Bradford.
Three
Lives For Mississippi (WCC Books, 1965)
Cagin, Seth and
Dray,
Philip.
We
Are Not Afraid(MacMillan, 1988)(best single
source]
Belfrage, Sally. Freedom
Summer(Viking Press, 1965)
McCord, William. Mississippi:
The
Long Hot Summer (Norton, 1965)
McIlhany, William. Klandestine:
The
Untold Story of Delmar Dennis (Arlington House, 1975)
Mars, Florence. Witness
at
Philadelphia (Louisiana University Press, 1976)
Mendelsohn, Jack. The
Martyrs:
16 Who Gave Their Lives for Justice (Harper & Row,
1966)
Rothschild, Mary
Aiken.
A
Case of Black and White: Northern Volunteers and the
Southern Freedom
Summers
(Greenwood, 1982)
Watson, Bruce.
Freedom Summer: The Savage
Season That Made
Mississippi Burn and America a Democracy [Viking,
2010]
Whitehead, Don, Attack
on
Terror: The FBI Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi(Funk
&
Wagnalls, 1970)
Periodicals
Atwater, James. "If
We
Can Crack Mississippi," The Saturday Evening Post,
July 2, 1964
Hendrickson,
Paul.
"20 Years Ago in the Heat of the Night," Washington Post,
July
10,
1984
Lomax, Louis E. "The
Road
to Mississippi," Ramparts special edition, 1964
Nevin, David. "A
Strange
Tight Little Town, Loathe to Admit Complicity" Life,
December
18,
1964
Spain, David
M.
"Mississippi
Autopsy" Ramparts, special edition, 1964
"A Recollection of
Michael
Schwerner" The Reporter, July 16, 1964
Video
CBS, "Attack on
Terror"
(1975)
NBC, "Murder in
Mississippi:
The Price of Freedom" (1990)
Orion Pictures,
"Mississippi
Burning" (1988)(fictionalized)
WBZ-TV
Boston,"Mississippi
Summer: The Unfinished Journey" (1984)
Internet
Buford
Posey's
Account of Murders
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/046.html
Mississippi
and
Freedom Summer
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/missippi.html
LBJ
got
conflicting input
http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/021697/lbjgot.htm Finding the
Bodies:
New Details on the FBI's $30,000 Reward (Jerry
Mitchell, Clarion
Ledger)
http://blogs.clarionledger.com/jmitchell/ Review
of
"Mississippi Burning"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/mississippiburningrkempley_a0c9de.htm
